Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-30

forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat
and tlourishing, to show that the Lord
is upright
HI IS MY ROCK,
and there is no unrighteousness in
me- Come, Isaiah, have you ANYTHING
to say out OF your prophecies for these
aged peopleP Yes" says Isaiah,
''down to old age l am with thee, and
to hoary hairs will | carry thee" Well
if the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs.
You get a little worried for fear some
time you will come to want, do you'
Your children, and grandchildren
sometimes speak a little sharp to You
because of your ailments. The Lord
will not speak sharp. Do you think
you will come to wantp Who do you
think the Lord is? Are his granaries
empty? Will he feed the raven, and
the rabbit, and the lion in the desert,
and forget you? Why, naturalists tell
us that the ccipoise will not forsake
its wound and sick mate. And do
you supposg tae Lord of heaven and
earth has NJ: as much sympathy as the
fish OF the seaP But you say: II am
so near worn out, and l am of no use
to God any more" l think the Lord
knows whether you are of any more
use or not; if you were of no more
use He would have taken you before
this. Do you think God has forgotten
you because He has taken care of you
seventy or eighty yearsP He thinks
more of you to-day than he aver did,
because you think more of him. May
the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and Paul the aged, be your God
for ever.
II PROMISES GROUPED.
But | gather all the promises to-day
in a group, and | ask the shepherds to
drive their flocks of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. "Behold,
happy is the man whom God cor
recteth." Though he cause grief.
yet will He have compassion" MANY
are the Affections of the righteous, hui
the Lord delivereth him out of them
all" "Weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning
| am determined this morning that nc
one shall 60 out of this house uncom.
forted. Yonder is a timid and shrink.
ing soul who seems to hide away from
the consultations | am uttering, as {
child with a sore hand hides away from
the physician lest he touch the wounC
too roughly, and the mother has to g
and compel the little patent to com,
out and see the physician. SO | com,
to your timid and shrinking soul to
day, and compel you to come out il
the presence of the Divine Physician
He will not hurt you. He has beer
healing wounds for many years, an,
He will give you gentle and omnipo
tent ~medicament. But people, whel
they have trouble, 60 anywhere rattle
than to God. DeQuincy took opium t,
get rid of his troubles. Charles Lam
took to punch. Theodore Hook tool
to something stronger. Edwin Torres
took to theatrical dissipation. An,
men have run all around the earth hop
ing in the quick transit to get ava,
from their misfortunes. 1t has been
dead failure. There is only one wei
that can slake the thirst of an afflicted
spirit, and that is the deep and mex
haustible well of the Gospel.
But some one says in the audience
| Notwithstanding all you have sai(
this morning, l find no alienation TO,
{ my troubles" Well, l am not through
!, yet. l have left the most potent con
sideration for the last. | am going t
soothe you with the thought of heaven
However talkative we may be, Their,
will come a time when tn stoutes
/, and most emphatic interrogation viii
evoke from us no answer. As soon a
f we hav close our lips for the tin ,
I, silence, nc power on earth can breal
, that taciturnity. But where, O Christ
ian, will be your spirit? In n scene 0
Infinite gladness. The spring mornin,
of heaven waving its blossoms in tn,
, bright air. Victors fresh from battl,
showing their scars. The rain O
earthly sorrow struck through with tn,
rainbow of eternal JOY. In one grou,
God and angels and the redet med
Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley
Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson and JOIN
Milton, Gabriel and Michael, the arch
ange's. Long line of choiristers reach
ing across the hills. Seas Of Joy dash
ing to the white beach. C~onqueror
marching from gate to gate. You
among them.
Oh, what. a great flock of sheep Goo
will gather around the Celestial well
No stone on the wells mouth Will,
the Shepherd waters the sheep
There Jacob will recognize Rachel, tn,
shepherIess. And standing on one sid,
Of the well Of eternal rapture, you,
children; and standing on the othe,
side of eternal rapture, your Christian
ancestry, you will be bounded on al
sides by a JOY so keen and grand tha'
no other world has been permitted t,
experience it. Out of that one deer
well Of heaven, the Shepherd will dir
reunion for the bereaved, wealth fol
the poor, health for the sick, rest fol
the weary. And then all the flock o.
the Lords sheep will lie down in thu
green pastures, and world without enc
we will praise the Lord that on this
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